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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (⫽ ˌ m oʊ p ər ˈ t w iː ⫽; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great.
27 lip 2013 · 28 September 1698. Saint Malo, France. Died. 27 July 1759. Basel, Switzerland. Summary. Pierre-Louis Maupertuis was a French mathematician who is most famous for formulating the principle of least action. View five larger pictures. Biography.
Maupertuis’s father was one of the pirates of Brittany, who succeeded in dispensing with his ships and converting to financial piracy on land, in such spec-ulative financial ventures as the infa-mous “South Seas Bubble.” His first-born, Pierre-Louis, was educated to attend the salons of Paris. Maupertuis’s preference for games-
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (ur. 28 września 1698 w Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets, zm. 27 lipca 1759 w Bazylei) – francuski uczony: matematyk, fizyk, astronom, geodeta i filozof. W 1723 został członkiem Akademii Nauk.
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, 1698- 1759, French mathematician and biologist. Maupertuis, a member of the Royal Society from 1728, was a strong supporter of Newton 's theories of gravitation.
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (born Sept. 28, 1698, Saint-Malo, France—died July 27, 1759, Basel, Switz.) was a French mathematician, biologist, and astronomer who helped popularize Newtonian mechanics.
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, the French scientist and philosopher, was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany. Elected in 1723 to the Acad é mie des Sciences (and to the Royal Society in 1728), he first became known for his work in geometry.
